Any type of music has good and bad influence.. xP
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well. rap and r&b are two totally different things.
and just like HIHI said .. any type of music has a good or bad
influence. it’s not just one type.
I know, but rap/hip-hop (did I mention R&B?)are both widely popular genres of music today. Artists like Fergie and Soulja Boi are in the spotlight so they may be having the greatest influences on teen-america.
Since people look at those genres the most kids may be pciking up subliminal messages.
So, I ask again…What kind of influence is rap/hip-hop (specifically) having on young America?
whoa .. sorry. it’s been a long day. haha.
but rap and hip-hop are two totally different things altogether.
i mean .. do you actually listen to both?
anywho. to answer your question. i say it’s more of the videos that are
giving off the worse message. make teens dress slutty/act a certain way ..
etc. use of language. but it’s nottttttt just rap/hiphop that has that
affect.
Lol. I understand your tiredness. I’m not exactly 100% all here either. :)
I agree with you. The video in most genres are very racy and degrading. I thinks it’s dissapointing that teens (who are not like me, apparently)take that appearance and use it. It’s just building a very…superficial…and steryotypical view of American teens.
I personally, listen to both, but I screen my music. I lean away from “Slappin’ up my bitches” and “I’m a gansta/ sexy mama” stuff. I just think it’s getting too old!! (But I do really like Ciara…and Fergie…and various other hip-hop people…and hey…Snoop Dog is addictive! As is Kanye West…)
I listen to all genres, but techno is my preffered genre…I think it connects on a higher level and in strange way sends off a higher emotion. (Whoops! I must stop before I start to rant!)
Well first off “Rap/Hip-Hop” is a pretty broad term. Rappers such as Mos Def and Talib Kweli cant be put anywhere near the same category as guys like 50 cent. There are completely different messages being sent out from each individual artist. There are conscious artists and artists out for the dollar and willing to say or do just about anything to get it.
As in other styles of music there are also messages being portrayed that can be considered dangerous and obscene. But we would never put some racist skinhead rock band in the same category as say Nickleback and as the question “does rock music send bad messages to our kids”
Lastly, as parents (and I am one) its up to us to try to teach out kids the difference between right and wrong and fact and make believe. So many of these kids grow up with “Fitty” as a role-model in stead of their own parents because their own parents dont take the time to become role-models for their kids. They expect society to be responsible for the upbringing of their children and will never accept blame for the problems this neglect causes their children.
I dunno, thats my view.
Yeah, they really do give off the wrong view of teenagers today. It’s sad. Everyone falls under a certain category now .. and it’s hard to stay out of them. Yeah .. I can’t stand that stuff. Hahaha, yeah. :) they are. Me too. It’s not until High school that i’ve learned to appreciate other music.
I’m just sad, cause a lot of music tends to be SO sexist and homophobic, it’s like, aw, what do those people have to identify with and listen to? But is it society that affects the music, or music that affects the society? I’d go with the first one!
rap/hip hop i think are correlated with each other. rap is the way artist like eminem and snoop dog show or perform their music, well it is very different from singing,right? for hip hop i think it is the so called “genre” the kind of music were rap is being used. it affects a lot on children’s behavior and points of view on the things around them.the way they dress their acts their language and even their beliefs.
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That’s bull **** hiphop is a culture of different indivuals so how can you blame hiphop for being the reason for children behaving badly. In that case I guess I could just blame the parents for letting there 5 year old listen to g-unit and then you wounder why they act the way they do umm umm that doesn’t even sound right that’s shame that a culture that has been around for 33 years and that is dominiated by “African Americans” it’s now a problem because you can’t handel your child. So pepole stop blaming hiphop for your problems and stop blaming bush, you are in control of your own destiny and outcome of most of your situations, so man up.
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yall all are stupid if these kids had some good home trainging they well know who to act. i grew up onh tupac and im not acting all stupid dont blame music blame the parents
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Not once did *I* blame rap/hip-hop for anything. And neither did any other users in this post.
And how President Bush came in to this I don’t know.
I’m not saying hip-hop is the blame for our societies problems. I’m just saying that some times kids are stupid and take things too literally. Often times we pick up role models and the behaviours that our role models show.
When a role model is sending off the message that it’s cool to do drugs, and get tipsy, and be a ho…that’s bad.
When the message is make that money, work hard, own up to your mistakes…that’s good.
Not all of the songs in the “black” genres give off bad messages. But for some reason the one’s with the strongest messages are the one’s that stick. :(
I mean, I have been effected by some of the music too. (Music videos more specifically.)
And deangelowilso, please use punctuation. People (in general) respect the person with good grammar. By not doing that you’re making people think less of you. They connect bad grammar and lack of punctuation with stupidity. Also, people often connect the way you talk to your race and how you act, so please don’t live in the steryotype.
I’m black also and a lot of people expect me to talk “ghetto” (hate that term…)and they’re shocked when I speak better than them.
It feels kind of like, “HA!! TAKE THAT B******! Black people not what you thought they were huh? Huh??!”
Baby steps in putting an end to the steryotype. XD
Rap and Hip Hop today can be very offensive to many people. Hip can be very important to people. Some hip hop people do send out positive messages. Most of hip hop is basically really mad for the club seen. I BELIEVE that if the record labels start looking at who the person really is as opposed to how much money they can make and stop signing rappers that only thing they can talk about is money cars hoes and drugs and say no to them and show them life is more than that. Give them a record deal if they can proove to you that they can rap about something positive. If the label could say no to them, that can start a big change. One step is better than no step at all. If they could see that rap is the center of the world they people watch them then they could do something about it. If the rapper don’t want there kids to do it them why are they talking about repeatedly then. I personally love hip hop cause it could be very moving and the only time i really listen to the hardcore hip hop will be at parties or if i happend to listen to whats new and hot. But if you are a supporter of hip hop or want to be a rapper theres more problems in this world then the same thing that the last rapper talked about on there album…think back to the days when our parents liked hip hop. THANKS LETS MAKE A CHANGE!!!
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rap can only effect your children if you are a bad parent..
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**** you
lay off the ******* crack you dont even know what your ******* talking about
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Well personally, I don’t like rap anyways, language and influences being part of it. The rap song that’s all the craze right now is “Hands in the Ayer” by Flo Rida. If you’ve ever heard the song, you would know how annoying it is to hear the correct term “air” pronounced wrong. Not only are the lyrics pretty illogical, the rapper’s name itself is badly spelled from “Flow Rider”, but modern day language is like this and I guess we can’t really do much about it. I was googling how rap has so many grammar errors. It’s not text speak that’s affecting teens and kids, that’s just how our technology is. If you look at 80% of rap songs, they all have some kind of messed up language. Here are some songs that really make me flip my lid on how teens and kids can listen to this garbage:
-Let Me Buy You A Drank (supposed to be drink)
-Any kind of rap song with “shawty” which I thought was a name but I’ve heard several other songs use this term. I’m beginning to think it’s a label for women, perhaps?
-As I stated before, “ayer” is nowhere found in the English dictionary.
-Other profound words, like: gangsta, *****, dayum, pop a cap in yo ***, get outta da way *****, etc.
That’s why I dislike rap in the first place. I don’t know the complete difference between hip-hop and rap, or r/b and rap, but I do know that R/B at least has some kind of pitch change like Sean Kingston’s “Beautiful Girls”. Otherwise I just see rap and hip-hop as someone mumbling about what life’s like in the ghetto/hood or watching some girl dance.
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HA! i like what Hi_Sai. by the way nice pic ^-^, well anyway, most rappers nowadays like “lil’ wayne” give offf a vibe that rap is a bad thing. Tupac (sorry if i spell it wrong)wrote music about random things like love, robots and life itself. The new things are sending really bad messages and thats another reason why i hate rap now. AZltho i never liked it anyhow….
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